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[PATCH] profiles: Build the man database only if 'man-db' is in the profile.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 51416 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#51416] [PATCH] profiles: Build the man database only if 'man-db' is in the profile.
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:50:54 +0200

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 07:33:28PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The other day Liliana came with a smart idea on IRC: to build the database
>> only when ‘man-db’ is also in the profile.  It’s a good way to not quite
>> make a decision :-), but it’s going to address the main pain point.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
>>From the user's perspective, what would change? Would `man foo` still
> work after installing foo?

Yes.  What wouldn’t work, unless ‘man-db’ is in the same profile, is
‘man -k whatever’:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Documentation.html

On Guix System, the system profile does include man-db by default.

Ludo’.

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